CVE-2023-37460

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-37460
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-07-25 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-08-03 13:52:00 UTC
DescriptionPlexis Archiver is a collection of Plexus components to create archives or extract archives to a directory with a unified `Archiver`/`UnArchiver` API. Prior to version 4.8.0, using AbstractUnArchiver for extracting an archive might lead to an arbitrary file creation and possibly remote code execution. When extracting an archive with an entry that already exists in the destination directory as a symbolic link whose target does not exist - the `resolveFile()` function will return the symlink's source instead of its target, which will pass the verification that ensures the file will not be extracted outside of the destination directory. Later `Files.newOutputStream()`, that follows symlinks by default, will actually write the entry's content to the symlink's target. Whoever uses plexus archiver to extract an untrusted archive is vulnerable to an arbitrary file creation and possibly remote code execution. Version 4.8.0 contains a patch for this issue.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Codehaus-plexus Plexus-archiver All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Release 4.8.0 · codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver · GitHub MISC github.com
Avoid override target symlink by standard file in AbstractUnArchiver · codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver@5475983 · GitHub MISC github.com
Arbitrary File Creation in AbstractUnArchiver · Advisory · codehaus-plexus/plexus-archiver · GitHub MISC github.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 161056 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for plexus-archiver (ELSA-2023-6886)
  • 242405 Red Hat Update for plexus-archiver (RHSA-2023:6886)
  • 356626 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for plexus-archiver : ALAS2023-2023-421
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